trunked

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

trunk +‎ -ed

Adjective[edit]

trunked (not comparable)

  1. (in combination) Having some specific type of trunk.
    large-trunked trees
    a picture of a two-trunked elephant
  2. (obsolete) Cut off, severed; mutilated.
    • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. [], London: [] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
      from the head the body sundred quight. / So him dismounted low, he did compell / On foot with him to matchen equall fight; / The truncked beast fast bleeding, did him fowly dight.
  3. Of a two-way radio system: using a control channel to automatically assign frequency channels to groups of user radios.

Verb[edit]

trunked

  1. simple past and past participle of trunk

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